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This weekend, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will hold its 10th Sales Tax Holiday. On Saturday, August 15th and Sunday, August 16th Bay State consumers will be able to purchase retail items, up to $2,500, without a sales tax.

Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, stated that the sales tax holiday is beneficial for both consumers and small businesses. He stated that the brief break consumers get from the sales tax also stimulates city and town economies across the state.

Twitter may not have the massive audience that Facebook has, but it’s still a very active social media network that creates engagement and interest with consumers. The trick to building a captive audience on Twitter is to offer your followers content they can use. Here are six ways to promote your business on Twitter and gain consumer interest.

Facebook offers business owners ten different advertising opportunities on their platform. Half of them are aimed at companies who have apps, events or videos to promote. However, the other types of advertisements are perfect for every business to use. They all focus on growing a business’s audience and encouraging consumer engagement.

It’s the age of social media. The chances are high your business is on at least one social media site. You are probably always looking for ways to gain and engage your followers. All of the social networks are aware of how businesses are trying to gain attention and are giving business owners the opportunity to advertise on their platforms. Facebook, in particular, has taken the lead in bringing targeted advertising opportunities to small businesses.

Facebook has made the process of buying ad space relatively easy and affordable. Although the types of advertising opportunities differ, the way you select your target audience and how you want to purchase the space remains the same.

Creating an online presence for your local business is a great first step to connect with consumers. However, with so many businesses online, it’s not enough to just have an URL, you need to promote it on search engines too. To help increase a website’s consumer engagement business owners turn to search engine marketing (SEM). SEM strategy calls for a business to create text ads on search engines. If you select the proper keywords, your business can be located above the top organic search results.

In May, we discussed the meaning of search engine marketing, the strategy to build a successful campaign and much more. If you missed any of these posts, here is May’s Blog Rewind.

Search engine marketing has become the focus of many businesses as they try to build their brand and engage customers online. For many business owners the world of online advertising is still a brand new experience. We wanted to address some frequently asked questions that some advertisers may have about search engine marketing and strategy for their marketing campaigns.

Search engine marketing (SEM) is more than just crafting the perfect text ad to be seen on a search engine. It also can refer to the steps you can take to bolster your website’s position as a search result when people do web searches. Despite having two different philosophies for search engine marketing, you can use both strategies to work together and build a strong web presence for your business.

Search engine marketing​ gives your business the opportunity to​ be​ seen by web users who search for a particular term or phrase​ related to your business​. Although your business may not be a part of the organic results, your text ad will be the first thing users see. But how do you select the​ right​ keywords to use? We've created this infographic to help guide your strategy when selecting the words and phrases you want to use in your campaign.

Search engine marketing is more than just selecting keywords to represent your business. It is fantastic if your ad wins the top bid and you receive top placement because of you keyword selection. It gets even better when people are engaging with your ad. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t make your campaign better. A business owner should always be looking for ways to grow and adapt an advertisement and keep building positive momentum.

Search engine marketing offers you the chance to be one of the first businesses a user finds when searching for a product or service. You don’t need to be one of the actual search results, you just need to be one of the active links on the page. But how does your text ad appear after a search?

Search engine marketing is driven by promoting the keywords you want to represent your business. A user does a search for an item or service and the search engine will place ads on the results page that match that keyword. The words you select hold a lot of responsibility, so it’s important for you to consider how you want to describe your business.